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Bridging the Political Rift One Face-to-face Conversation at a Time
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy, Uncategorized
- August 8, 2025
On Wednesday, President Joe Biden unveiled a sweeping plan to let delinquent student loan borrowers transfer tens of thousands of dollars in debt to taxpayers. If he were a biblically minded leader, Biden would have used his nationally televised press conference to repent of his role in creating the student loan crisis in the first
READ MOREcolor:#222222″>Many years ago, I wrote an article on the research of Cornell University professor David Pimentel. color:#222222″>Pimentel, a geneticist and evolutionary biologist, claimed it takes more energy to produce ethanol from corn than the combustion of ethanol yields. Because of this fundamental input-yield problem, corn is a really lousy crop for making ethanol, Pimentel said.
READ MOREMore than two years after the 2016 election, many Americans still wonder what is wrong with their country. What, they wonder, could have caused their fellow citizens to elect Donald Trump to the presidency? According to numerous commentators on the left, and even some on the right, Trump’s victory can be chalked up to the
READ MOREI was at a restaurant for lunch and had time to visit with the waitress, who turns out to be a college graduate from a good institution. She has a degree in European languages. Here she is waiting tables with nondegreed people, some five years her junior, some 10 years her elder. She is making
READ MOREIn the wake of Donald Trump’s election, the overwhelming response among progressives was “how in the world did this happen?” Those of us who study the rise of political and moral polarization in the United States, however, were less surprised. Think of the people you choose to spend time with – your romantic partner,
READ MOREThe opening of the Declaration of Independence, the document that formally kicked off the American Colonies’ drive to establish an independent country from Great Britain, is a beloved document for most Americans. We should all know it by heart, but if one doesn’t, here it is: When in the Course of human events, it becomes
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